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Wednesday, January 11, 2023
Can we live sanely in a world with no transcendence ? The Bach Mass in B-Minor
[The Mass was described in the 19th century by the editor Hans Georg Nägeli as "The Announcement of the Greatest Musical Work of All Times and All People" ("Ankündigung des größten musikalischen Kunstwerkes aller Zeiten und Völker").[47] Despite being seldom performed, the Mass was appreciated by some of Bach's greatest successors: by the beginning of the 19th century Forkel and Haydn possessed copies. ]
This work of Bach captures the long lost mystique and gravitas of the pre-Vatican II Catholic Church. Can we live sanely in a world with NO transcendence ?
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